better for large files, and sources with relatively "stable" entropy,
like silesia.tar.
slightly worse for files with rapidly changing entropy,
like Calgary.tar/.
Updated small files tests in fuzzer
used to be necessary to counter-balance the fixed-weight frequency update
which has been recently changed for an adaptive rate (targeting stable starting frequency stats).
As a library, the default shouldn't be to write anything on console.
`cover` and `fastcover` have a `g_displayLevel` variable to control this behavior.
It's now set to 0 (no display) by default.
Setting notification to a higher level should be an explicit operation by a console application.
This new setup is slighly better on `silesia.tar` :
Ratio : 3.649 -> 3.655
Speed : 11.9 MB/s -> 12.2 MB/s
At the cost of more memory : 24 MB -> 32 MB
The new memory budget is a reasonable interpolation between neighboring levels 12 and 14:
level 12 : 24 MB
level 13 : 32 MB (increased from 24 MB)
level 14 : 48 MB
Window size remains unaffected (4 MB)
It's a bit strange, because this is hitting the dictionary special case where
the dictionary is contiguous with the input and still runs in the single-
segment path.
We should probably change that to hit the `extDict` path instead?
This removes the old `ZSTD_compressBlock_fast_generic()` and renames the new
`ZSTD_compressBlock_fast_generic_pipelined()` to replace it. This is
functionally a no-op.
Unrolling the loop to handle 2 positions in each iteration allows us to reduce
the frequency of some operations that don't need to happen at every position.
One such operation is the step calculation, which is a very rough heuristic
anyways. It's fine if we do this a position later. The other operation is the
repcode check. But since the repcode check already tries expanding back one
position, we're really not missing much of importance by only trying it every
other position.
This commit also slightly reorders some operations.
Amusingly, it seems to be a non-trivial performance hit to add in final
searches or even hash table insertions during cleanup. So let's not. It seems
to not make any meaningful difference in compression ratio.